Quotes about Freedom
I know not whether laws be right, Or whether laws be wrong; All that we know who lie in gaol Is that the wall is strong; And that each day is like a year, A year whose days are long.
- Oscar Wilde
It is more dangerous that even a guilty person should be punished without the forms of law than that he should escape.
- Thomas Jefferson
Angels fly because they take themselves lightly.
- GK Chesterton
To know what you prefer, instead of humbly saying "Amen" to what the world tells you you ought to prefer, is to keep your soul alive.
- Robert Louis Stevenson
'Tis a gift to be simple, 'tis a gift to be free. 'Tis a gift to come round to where we ought to be. And when we find a place that feels just right, We will be in the valley of love and delight.
- Anonymous
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath.
- Anonymous
Outside, among your fellows, among strangers, you must preserve appearances, a hundred things you cannot do; but inside, the terrible freedom!
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Be like the bird that, passing on her flight awhile on boughs too slight, feels them give way beneath her, and yet sings, knowing that she hath wings.
- Victor Hugo
Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that desire.
- Epictetus
Love, and do what you like.
- St. Augustine
If you put a chain around the neck of a slave, the other end fastens itself around your own.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
- Thomas Jefferson